Minister calls for old car ban

Imports of older cars and vans should be banned to help reduce pollution, Minister of Industry and Handicrafts Cham Prasidh said on Monday. Speaking to Cambodia’s business community at a Green Industry workshop in Phnom Penh on Monday, Prasidh said all countries had a role to play in reducing greenhouse emissions and that Cambodia should look at the environmental impact of its used car market. “Used and older automobiles are polluting the environment so much, so I am planning to request to the government to consider blocking used cars and and automobiles older than 10 years from entering Cambodia,” he said. …

Chan Muyhong
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